It may be very urgent indeed that you get a
job, but you are far from being the only one and considering the vast numbers
of applicants that there can be for any job advertised, it is important that
you put together a resume or CV that will stand out and get you an interview.
Unless there is a closing date listed in
the job advertisement, many jobs go quickly, almost as soon as they are advertised,
and time is of the essence, considering that quite likely there will be
hundreds of others applying for the same job.
Instead of trying to put a resume together
from what you have heard are good ways to go about it and things that should be
on it and staring at a blank word document or piece of paper, the best way to
go about it is to make use of the many resume / CV building resources such as
free templates and builders that are available online by Googling Free CV
builder and /or Free CV template. Many of the templates available online are
job specific, but when writing a resume or CV from scratch, or the first one
you have done for many years, what is needed is a generic version, which can be
uploaded to your profile on Job search boards such as Monster, Indeed and Total
jobs. This generic version will even maybe have you headhunted by employers who
see it online and will contact you about vacancies, it can also be adapted when
you apply for specific roles.
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Your resume or CV is quite likely to be the
first chance you have of making an impression on a potential employer or the
hiring staff and it has to be good or you will get no further. be careful not
to send something that is obviously just copied and pasted from the Internet. Be
sure that your resume highlights your experience and if this is a targeted
resume, your experience and qualifications for that specific role.
The aim of your resume or CV is to get you through
the selection process, get an interview and then to get you the job, there is
no point just making do as for each job you apply for, you will only get one
chance to get attention and be noticed among all the other applicants. It can
be a long hard struggle indeed to get a job in the current market and it is important
that your resume or CV stands out and gets noticed
You have only 15-30 seconds at most and
often now just five, to get the attention of and make an impression on a hiring
manager due to the vast numbers of applicants they receive for each position.
It may well even be that it is not a human who reads it at all but scanning
software that is programmed to pick out the applications with the right words
for the job, so you need to know what they are and what is being looked for. If
your application is read by a hiring manager or any member of staff responsible
for recruitment you need to have them set your application aside and have them
make the decision to contact you within those first few seconds, if the first
two lines do not do it, the rest will quite likely not be read at all
Are you tired of being rejected from one
application after another? Are you just firing your resume or CV off online to
job after job to keep the Job centre advisers happy so that they will see that
you are applying for jobs and you will get your job seekers allowance, but that
in fact your applications have no spark and make this obvious? Employers know a
desperate applicant when they see one ….
Certainly, the economy has made it more
difficult to get a job but often this is not the main reason why you are having
such problems, but rather your resume /CV is to blame and does not do you justice.
There is a lot of help out there both
online and from Work programs and job clubs, often operating in local libraries
and community center’s …Don’t be afraid of preparing your resume or CV, have
confidence in it, let it do what it is supposed to do ...to sell you ...and
then know that you have as much chance as you could have of getting that job.
Valerie Hedges
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